This AI Can Automatically Remove Watermarks From Photographs Like A Professional

American technology firm Nvidia along with researchers from Aalto University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a paper outlining a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can almost flawlessly retouch grainy or pixelated pictures. The software uses deep-learning to automatically remove noise and artifacts. What makes this system so unique is that it can teach itself to fix corrupted photos simply by looking at them. Previous deep learning work in image retouching was centered on training neural networks to restore images by comparing noisy and clear images. This new method, however, only requires two corrupted images to proceed with removing noise. "It is possible to learn to restore signals without ever observing clean ones, at performance sometimes exceeding training using clean exemplars," reads the paper.